skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between having a team of people vs working alone.

The comic book industry at a minimum would have a writer, artist, editor. In reality they have an entire ecosystem of people because they are a corporation.

If it wasn't for the proceeds from doing movies with non-creator-owned IP, I doubt that Marvel and DC would still exist.

I would love it if they went subscription based for access to old digital releases and pay-as-you-go for 6 month old content.

There's a lot of former comic book geeks who have gotten out of the habit because shelling out $100-150 a month on comics is kind of ridiculous when you have a mortgage, day care, and car payments and don't even have time to read comics anyways.
I don't know - sometimes external motivation can help. i.e I lost two stone (28lbs) because a) I was approaching my 40th birthday, and didn't want to be fat and 40, and b) I wanted to stay healthy for little girl.
And if your implementation doesn't have it, it's not hard to add.

E.g. for JS: http://blog.mackerron.com/2010/08/08/extended-multi-line-js-...
You know, I totally love Warren Ellis and his writing (for the most part, there are some duds) - and he makes an excellent point here.

But it would been great if he took those five minutes to create a visual example of how he thought it could be better. Because even as he explai a it I can't quite picture how a cropping of the cover would actually be better.

As a comic lover and buyer - a thumbnail version of a full cover seems more enticing to me than a cropped one. It's what I'm used to (moving from print) and I can tap it to view info and a larger cover. I can't picture how a cropped version would be better. Possibly a shot from inside the comic but sometimes covers are part of the fun.
More bytes for a pixelated look!
sounds like you have all the right parts identified. Now its only a matter of doing it =P, best of lucks!
Did you even read the article?

This isn't some generic advice on how to sell a comic -- it's about a very specific aspect of the process. Your comment is completely irrelevant to anything Ellis had to say here.
You're presuming an awful lot in that analysis there.

Besides, who is not a cog in some wheel or other? In civilized countries, there is nobody who is at the top of all hierarchies, no King. It's a pejorative with no bite if it applies to all.
As long as their valuation depends on speculation, number of users matters.
And why does it need a turbocharger? Is it even an internal combustion engine?
Sillmarillion is just meant to be read in pieces, I think. It's very similiar to the Old Testament, and I don't know a single person that read the Old Testament in one sitting.
Facebook Makes a Video Ad to Celebrate 1 Billion Users
The same happened with me.

I think there's another important thing to note, and that is that many comics go out of print, and if we don't digitize them, we lose some true treasure of comicbooks as a result.

I think a lot of people pirated comics for this reason. Especially outside the U.S.

That said, having all my comics on a digital device or in the cloud instead of a row on my shelf just feels weird. But the upside is that owning content digitally means that the publishers can update it constantly, as some did with retina-resolution comics.
Here is the hacker news opportunity: build a real-time fact checker for this type of claim. Remember Popup Video on VH1? Something like that.
Cassandra as a Cloud File System
Spoiler Alert ... 3D printing
Let's draw an important distinction.

There is programming, writing code that helps computers do what people tell them to do.

Then there is the experience of programming that this author seems to have, which involves a lot of long hours, and nights until 2 AM.

It is rare for competent and experienced people to be tolerant of the toxic environment that was assumed for programming. Over time you learn that there are lots of professional programmers with reasonable lifestyles, and you'll want to become one of them.

However programming itself, if it is enjoyable for you, is likely to remain enjoyable for a long, long time. (Mid-40s here. Didn't learn that I liked programming until around 30.)
A campaign that takes place on Instagram, or that makes extensive use of Instagram to gather content. ie: A photo contest on Instagram were participants tag their pictures with: #WhatTheHeckjcromartie to enter. (not limited to contests, but it's the most obvious example)
Admittedly no, I was going off the title.
It's always so exciting when companies decide their blog should target HN.
Photos taken by you maybe not, but the number of photos taken by your community about your brand is an interesting analytics to monitor. As for like received it as several use: #1 you get to know which photo taken by one of your fan got the most likes and maybe reward this person for his great work. #2 On your own account it's still a great way to see if the content you are pushing to your fans is relevant to them or not.
I thought it was odd that the article claimed that you can't export data from SkyDrive. It's dead simple to "export" since the data is synced to your computer anyway!
Are Angels Making Money? More Important, Should You Care?
I'm not sure what you mean. I was criticizing the viz, not the literature.

Incidentally, I never read anything by Lovecraft, but am a big fan of Tolkien. I came up with this nickname on the spot.
Pretty cynical? You can have more or less autonomy in your life, that's very important. You don't have to be King to be your own boss; you don't have to be poor to be a cog.
Yeah, Nokia updated it's map in last two months. At the beginning of August it matched it's satellite view, and the funny part was that I relied on that map! I preferred Nokia maps because I found them to be more clear. But then on the spot I was like current Apple users with their Apple maps...
Some people just don't have anything they want to achieve. Others may have that, but due to mortgages, child college funds, or other reasons, just have to make due with having their value extracted from them in an employee role. The most depressing of sights is those that have successfully convinced themselves this is a good parking spot to occupy the rest of their lives.

I'm pretty glad I realized what this article is talking about early on and started planning long term for my own exit, as I knew my tolerance for this was a finite resource that would be continually depleted.
I always feel I'd get on with Ben Horowitz, given his apparent liking for a) hip-hop, b) boxing and c) technology and business (although mfar ore successful at it than me).

If I found he liked fly-fishing as well we'd be like blood brothers or something.
That's a good point. I didn't even consider the approval process in the App Store.
Just yesterday I ran into someone's computer hit with a variant on this scam[0], which was demanding you buy them a prepaid debit card to pay off the ransom. Seems nearly impossible to trace back to the extortionist if they're careful about spending them.

[0] http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/august/new-internet-sca...
I'm currently looking for a house in the UK so I gave this a go. I found the interface incredible buggy.

The search tools didn't work correctly, adjusting the price either made no difference to the properties shown or just came up with an error, "Ad detail is not available at this zoom level."

The photo only thing doesn't seem to do anything.

When navigating around my city every I would have to wait for the search results to repopulate which only took a second but was very annoying.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/1VABv1jf
Quite difficult. For instance, you can't buy SpaceX. You'd have to find highly correlated stuff.
I mean writing things meant for publishing in IEEE conferences, using the IEEEtran class.

Another concern is: is it practical to include figures drawn with Tikz? I find it the easiest way to lay out many things, but it effectively means LaTeX lock-in.
The agreement is just another contract. Contracts can't make you do anything; they just list penalties if you don't adhere to the agreement.What penalties if you go ahead and file a Class Action suit?
The Code Side Of Color
UFO SINKS BATTLESHIP
What if your computer dies? Is there an easy way to get the data back? What if your computer dies and you've moved to another country? (These are honest questions - I'm not asking rhetorically.)
Appification of Books? Closing the gap between blogs and books.
I am 61, started programming in high school in the mid-1960s, still really enjoy it.

But, that is the issue: enjoyment. The author of the article is not enjoying himself (apparently) so time to try something else.

I enjoy the tech and helping people. My only frustration with my work comes when occasionally projects, for whatever reason, don't work out well.
If the visual representation can be described with data, you give them the option to view that data. Images have a longdesc attribute for this http://webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc

Not all visual applications can be made accessible.
I think startupplays.com is very useful tho get acknowledged in what is really hot in the startup world.
Yes, I've had similar experiences with Virgin Media.
Internet goes off, so I reset router and modem and check all the cables are properly connected etc.

So I login to the router admin page and sure enough it tells me it's unable to establish a WAN connection, modem lights also indicate that it's not getting a connection either.

So I call technical support hoping that they will check and tell me if there is an issue with the service in my area.

They ask me to reset modem and router, so I say "yes, tried all that" they make me do it again anyway. Ok , well that doesn't work so I ask if there is any problem in my area.

Instead they want to dig around in my computer's network/firewall settings. So I tell them the problem is that my router can't get a connection out to the WAN. Lady on the other end doesn't really know what a WAN is but I've already told her that the modem light that should be on is off.

Still they insist on going through the troubleshooting steps on my PC and can't proceed until they've done that. The only computer in my house at the time is my Ubuntu box so they insist it must be that and I have to call them back from a Windows or Mac computer.

So I call back, pretending to have a Windows computer in front of me, pretend to go through all of their steps to no avail. About 45 minutes later she gives up and checks the service status. Sure enough, there is maintenance in my area which is why my internet doesn't work.
Better than I did. I got a call from "Visa" about a decade ago telling me that hackers could break "the codes" used to protect my credit card. I played dumb and gave him a card number (first 16 digits of pi) and we ended the call. I just a bunch of callbacks that I refused to answer several minutes later.

I was still on dial-up and I don't think any of my credit cards offered virtual numbers at that point, but I should have set up a card with a $0.00 or $0.01 limit and given that to him, and then sicced fraud services on 'em.
I wonder if they have phone metrics as well - "What do you mean you spent 80+ minutes on the phone with him and didn't get the credit card number? Don't you know where this will put you in the stack ranking?!?"
What platform, languages do you use? I may want to apply to this company in the future! (Ruby on Rails programmer, currently working from home full time)
There are effectively three potential sources of vulnerability in the Bitcoin network:

1. A flaw is discovered in the Bitcoin client.

2. A flaw is discovered in the public key cryptography algorithms the network uses.

3. An attacker has control of more than 50% of the processing power of the whole network.

The first two vulnerabilities are common to any system dealing with finances.

The third vulnerability is particular to Bitcoin, and would allow an attacker to "double-spend". This is because Bitcoin relies on a CPU-majority to determine which transaction came first, rather than a central authority such as a bank.

Another point to note is that normal bank transactions can be reversed if fraud is detected, but bitcoins are like physical cash in that there's no automatic mechanism to void a transaction.

There are ways of securely storing bitcoins, but the organisations and high-profile individuals who have been hacked have not had security even close to the level you'd want for storing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Tesla are setting up Supercharger stations to refuel cars. From my understanding they are garage-port like things with solar panels on them, that recharge themselves. Solar cells can last a long time, and the technology will continue to improve. For climates with less sun there will likely need to be an alternate method of generating energy, though that will all be figured out. Read the following for details of I'm talking about, re: free to refuel your car - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-motors-launches-revoluti...
Check out chapter 4 of his book, "Work Habits".

Available at http://edweissman.com/53640595 and as a PDF (top of the linked page).

To summarize: Use simple tools and eliminate distractions. At the end of the day, code and refactor away from the computer (on printouts). This forms the basis of the next day's work at the computer.
I haven't used it, but I believe Pyparsing does much or what you are describing.

The declarative naming is more like 'OneOrMore(Digit)("year")'.
And ideally the private key would be generated from an permanently offline machine.
"Ad detail is not available at this zoom level" is not an error, it means you have to zoom in to see all the properties because there are too many properties at that zoom level.

When you click on a photo, shouldn't it be zoomed in ? I am surprised that the price filter doesn't work. Could you tell me which city you were looking at ?
The main feature of skydrive is dropbox-ish cloud storage that syncs a folder on your computer with their online storage. To "recover" you can just log in to a web browser and download the files.
So, this is what HN posts have come to? The level of tabloid science news coverage.
It also thankfully gets rid of companies claiming they can't be punished for illegitimate takedowns because they weren't done through the DMCA. Until they find some other loophole to hide behind, of course.
Back when I was a BOFH, I would string these calls on all the time. Usually I could manage 30-40 minutes before the Indian would get tired of it and hang up. Occasionally I'd get one that would last for over an hour.
This looks like something I could use.
23, programming for, what, 14 years, maybe? And I hope I still have as much fun when I'm 57. I can certainly imagine myself doing so, for much the same reasons; it is partially about the happy dance feeling when something I built works, but long-term happiness and satisfaction come from seeing it getting used. It's really, really cool to see someone's masters thesis and think "I helped make that!" or drive by an elementary school and thing "they're using my stuff!" I may not be writing the same kinds of programs for the rest of my life, but I hope I don't ever get tired of writing useful software.
Another way to spin it: "At most one in seven humans uses Facebook regularly"
I just find it sad people write themselves off as never being rich or running their own business. There are 16 year olds making 6 figures writing their own iphone apps yet people view their only alternative to programming is moving to middle management.
Lion's Lair 2012: Today is the Gala Event
So why not always do an arm capture?
This title is highly inaccurate. The article's title is vague: "How to Make Almost Anything".

This is 6 pages of both generalizing 3d printing, and connecting the historical dots between manufacturing and computation. It's a good liberal-arts read.
Sorry, it's terrible.

You cannot search by postcode -- worse, any time it won't recognise whatever search term you input, it will just reload the same page without any sort of warning/sorry message.

When you happen to enter a recognised name, you get sent to a "town centre" which is anything but -- it looks like it's just being calculated, and over a very wide area. For example, Stockport town centre is close to the M60, but the borough is technically quite wide, so the "central" pin is dropped somewhere out in the sticks.

Zoom out to see the entire country, and it looks like only London, Edinburgh and Glasgow have properties; but if you click at random, you'll see that it's not the case.

It's incredibly slow and non-intuitive, and looks like a side-project. Rightmove and friends are still on a different level.
You're continuing to presume an awful lot there. I don't see edw519 saying those things.
I could be wrong - my apologies if I am - in the section about the hearing impaired, shouldn't it be "Deaf community" with a capital D?
Sounds like an interesting idea...just found a maid for my Brooklyn apartment last week, actually. Money is a huge factor for me, so we went with something a little cheaper than this.

The ratings in the App store (all 5 stars, all glowing and highlighting different aspects/application of the service) are a bit fishy...
This highlights the only thing I don't like about Git. It's an immensely capable tool, but it gives no guidance regarding the right way to do things.

Our own teams have a set of practices which are similar but different from what Linus outlines here. And different projects on my company use different practices from those.

The worst thing is that there's no way of enforcing these workflows or practices other than out-of-band social conventions. And so minor mistakes happen, all the time. Our Git projects are never as pretty as they should be.

In other words, Git provides an awesome set of primitives for source control. I'm not sure what it'd look like, but I'd like to see a product that built on those primitives to enforce a little more order on projects.
Icon fonts are just 10% SVG file size
I have travelled around the world with my trusted Nokia mapson Nokia N8 and now the Lumia 800. It's a lifesaver especially when you consider you dont have network when you are travelling and offline maps is of great help. Until I tried maps on an Android, I didn't realize how awesome nokia maps really is. iOS maps was even worse.
I am a natural cynic, yes, but people tend not to pay you unless you are doing something that makes you a cog for some period of time. It's not a criticism you can just fling at someone when you don't know their context. An experienced software contractor who is picking and choosing their own jobs is still pretty autonomous. It's more about whether you can pick where you are a cog and for whom you are a cog, than whether you are doing something that somebody can point at and screech "COG! COG!". We live in a highly interdependent society, and I think that's largely a good thing.
Except it isn't a neutral third party when one party gets to pick the arbitrator and the other party has no say.

It's why forced arbitration in employment contracts are so odious, it's the corporation + a corporate lawyer vs you, and you have no options if they for instance allow you to be brutally raped and then imprison you in a shipping container for days for reporting it.
Linode was out of the picture fast, as they do not provide per hour pricing.

I thought that Linode is competitively priced - is that a wrong assumption? (What is the pricing of Amazon's EC2 per year compared to Linode's?)
0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this right?
So true. Just crushed me...
3 Lessons Doctors Can Teach You About Selling Your Proposals
> I'm going to assume it is something based on VNC or RDP.

It's not at all. Very few end user support tools are VNC or RDP based. Most of them use services like LogMeIn or GoToAssist. I've received a few of these calls where I strung them along and they were all using one of the two listed above (most used LogMeIn). I did encounter one that was using an off-brand tool, but it was commercial and not VNC or RDP based.

Even if they were using something like VNC, you couldn't run a custom server to troll them, because the connection is initiated in the inverse of what you're used to when controlling a remote computer. They don't connect to your machine, you run an executable, which initiates a connection from your computer to their server.
It's not just comics; at least one major US publisher of trade fiction isn't bothering to optimize their book covers for legibility at Amazon thumbnail size (120x80 pixels). Even with authors biting their ankles on the subject and ebook sales heading towards 60% of the total.
yes. started with $8/hr in 2008 just to get first feedback on a profile when I was back in Belarus and now charging $100/hr. While it is not full time now - I am really satified with the fact I am working on what I like and get paid really well for that.

and oDesk gave me ability to get in USA (found my future H-1b sponsor on oDesk.) so I have personal bias :)
The joke might be on you. Support calls to your ISP typically have a price per minute.
hmnn, may I know which search terms did you use?
I am counted as 4 people at least.

Back in 2008, I created some accounts for fun to see how Facebook worked, began sending out random requests first day to 4-5 people, next day to 4,5 people. On the third day I had more than 40 friends and was in a circle in some other country and people began writing on my wall asking how I am. Lame.
One Billion People on Facebook
The "Price" slider seems to set a minimum price. Is it possible to set a maximum price (which I would imagine more people would want)?
Geeks V/s Nerds [Infographic]
Of course one should determining what one thinks the stock options will be worth in the future, but the current stock performance has little bearing on that.
Better version of Mona Lisa:

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zbcJq
These guys are all seriously bad-ass at what they do. I had the honor of working with them back in grad school on
http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/
No, sorry - the bit from the article that was in my mind as I replied was forcing one to use the opposite Shift, because I'd tried that myself. I didn't think about the use of Shift as a key on its own (I really wouldn't get on with that myself as I tap the meta keys a lot while I'm thinking).
We'd love feedback on the app/service. If anyone is interested in signing up, you can use invite code "GMHN" to get $20 off your first clean.
I wish you the best of luck! Your product is one of those things that everyone will have sooner or later.
Still, it's an impressive number. Compare that # to the first 10 years of cable, then remember that Facebook is all of it whereas cable consisted of lots of independent channels.
Agreed. It's just applying some standard (albeit amusing) tools to a particular text (amounting to 1 book in 5 parts) and getting results no different from any other text. Word clouds etc have been done, but all still result in pretty much the same sort of textual haze, with nothing inspiring a unique view of a unique tome.

Mapping semantic associations would be more interesting. Something akin to http://xkcd.com/657/ generated by the in-text juxtaposition of names & related verbs.
Re: Codility

> People who get offended too easily are probably those who you don’t want to hire (emphasis mine).

So basically it seems to be the thought process is:

1. I want you to waste your time (but not mine, because I'm more precious than you are) doing an online exam before I am willing to talk to you on the phone, or meet you face-to-face like a normal human being.

2. If you are offended by this, then you are wrong. It just proves that you are "difficult" and I was right not to hire you in the first place.

Way to go wining over developers. I wish you well.
Facebook Tops Billion-User Mark
Consumer is going to lose almost 100% of the time when it goes to Arbitration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Arbitration_Forum
there are two knots where you can drag to set both minimum and maximum prices, no ?
we hang around on HN, moaning